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291. Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

     2nd Edition

     By Georgia M. Green

     Series: Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series

     This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech, text, and discourse, accessible to the...

     Published July 31st 1996 by Routledge
292. Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood

     Conversations in Parent-child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships:a Special Issue of research on Language and Social interaction

     Edited by Amy Sheldon

     This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in childhood. The interconnections between language and gender in three key developmental sociolinguistic contexts are examined: talk between parent and...

     Published January 31st 1996 by Psychology Press
293. Texts and Practices

     Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

     By Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Malcolm Coulthard

     Text and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguiistic analysis, the contributors to this text reveal the ways in whcih language can be used as a means of social control.The...

     Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge
294. Text and Discourse Analysis

     By Raphael Salkie

     Series: Language Workbooks

     A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis: * examines a wide variety of authentic texts including news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks* contains numerous practical...

     Published August 30th 1995 by Routledge
295. Text-based Learning and Reasoning

     Studies in History

     By Charles A. Perfetti, M. Anne Britt, Mara C. Georgi

     History is both an academic discipline and a school subject. As a discipline, it fosters a systematic way of discovering and evaluating the events of the past. As a school subject, American history is a staple of middle grades and high school curricula in the United States. In higher education, it...

     Published May 31st 1995 by Routledge
296. Deixis in Narrative

     A Cognitive Science Perspective

     Edited by Judith F. Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, Lynne E. Hewitt

     This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational model for narrative understanding. Disciplines represented include artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, communicative disorders, education,...

     Published April 30th 1995 by Psychology Press
297. Discourse Comprehension

     Essays in Honor of Walter Kintsch

     Edited by Charles A. Weaver, III, Suzanne Mannes, C. Randy Fletcher

     This volume is derived from presentations given at a conference hosted in Boulder, Colorado in honor of the 60th birthday of Walter Kintsch. Though the contents of the talks, and thus the chapters, varied widely, all had one thing in common -- they were inspired to some degree by the work of Walter...

     Published January 31st 1995 by Routledge
298. Language, Gesture, and Space

     Edited by Karen Emmorey, Judy S. Reilly

     This book brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gestural systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are conveyed. The chapters focus on five pertinent areas reflecting different, but related research topics:...

     Published January 31st 1995 by Psychology Press
299. The Consequentiality of Communication

     Edited by Stuart J. Sigman

     Series: Routledge Communication Series

     In a bold attempt to redirect the ways theories of communication are conceived and research on communication processes are conducted, this volume questions prevailing communication scholarship that emphasizes the cultural, psychological, and sociological variables that impact on, and/or are...

     Published December 31st 1994 by Routledge
300. Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion

     Theoretical Foundations for Document Design

     By Kim Sydow Campbell

     Series: Routledge Communication Series

     There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehension and usability. Theories of cohesion from linguistics and of comprehension in psychology are likely sources of such general principles. Unfortunately...

     Published October 31st 1994 by Routledge